Lines on the Water

A blog exploring legal rights for rivers, environmental flows, and water governance around the world.

Monday, 5 December 2016

Urban water management: lessons from Melbourne's experience of drought

Since the Millennium Drought of 2000-2010 (and particularly the devastatingly dry period of 2007-2010), Australians have significantly impro...

New article in The Conversation: speculation in Australia's water markets

Australia's water markets continue to be recognised as world leaders in supporting rapid, flexible, enforceable and cheap transfers of w...

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

New article in The Conversation

As the water resources debate in northern Australia continues to take shape, it is essential that we do not overlook the need to address the...

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Interview on Radio National's Counterpoint

Developing northern Australia remains a topic of interest, especially following the recent federal election, which returned (just) a coaliti...

New article in The Conversation

Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability Barry Hart , Monash University ; Avril Horne , University of Melbourn...

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Damming northern Australia - a repost from The Conversation

Damming northern Australia: we need to learn hard lessons from the south Erin O'Donnell , University of Melbourne and Barry Hart , M...

Back into the blog!

It's been a long time between posts. 2016 is officially the Year of the Thesis, so I am working hard to finally get my PhD thesis submit...

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About Me

Erin O'Donnell: Melbourne, Australia; This blog is a space to explore some of the exciting developments in legal rights for rivers, environmental water management, and the ways that environmental water managers are learning to use the opportunities created by water markets. Of course, markets are sometimes not a great fit for environmental values, and I'm just as interested in the potential constraints as the opportunities. You can find me on twitter @ezzyod

I've been working in water resource management since 2002, and I have a PhD in environmental water law and governance. If you want to read some of my more official work, you can find my thesis at the University of Melbourne Law School.

I've used my new book to create the word art I use in the banner, which brings together many of the themes I will be discussing here. Thanks to wordle.net for the great word art!

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